Reviews WesternAnimation / Wall E

I get the bad "Mega Corp is evil and terrible and you're all pigs" moral is fucking stupid.

I don't get the unsympathetic, uncharacterized bits.

Considering the athieism sub-text of Toy Story, and the Socialist all but out right text of A Bugs Life (I've seen meetings of the NDP which is Canada's Socialist-lite party use A Bug's Life to help illustrate their platform) I'd say that Pixar is very good at getting not quite Disney style messages past the higher ups somehow.

I have no idea how you don't manage to sympathize with Wall-E and EVE at all. Hell they were more enjoyable and relatable than half of the human characters that Hollywood throws at us these days.

I will give you that the comedic moments were rather weak and the climax was disapointing though.

I couldn't sympathize with the robot characters because they were basically inexpressive and didn't really speak, beyond Pokemon-like recitation of their names. When EVE is introduced, she flies around blowing shit up, and we never really find out why (or if we do, it wasn't communicated very well, and I missed it). She just, occasionally, flips out and blows shit up, and because she never speaks, it doesn't feel like part of her character so much as it feels like something the creators just felt like having her do. If it were just going for madcap, absurdist comedy, that would be fine. Also, when you consider that the main "characters" are a pair of inanimate objects, they become even less worthy of being taken seriously. You may as well watch a windup toy for hours, and then cry when it stops moving.

Obviously, every character needs to be human to sympathize with or to be a good story.

Are you sure this opinion is infamous? I mean, I have no freshly-baked-rhubarb-pieing idea who you are, but maybe that's just me. I also know of multiple people who didn't like Wall-E.

I know there are reasons to not like Wall-E. You've hit none of them.

I respectfully completely disagree with everything you've said. :|

I can't bring myself to sympathize with anything you just wrote, as most of it is devoid of anything but sarcasm.

Can't sympathize with anything that doesn't talk it seems.

Trolls are funny.

The word "Troll" has become like the word "Noob"; completely devoid of any useful meaning.

"Considering the athieism sub-text of Toy Story"

Wait what.

^Andy's a god, and the toys' sole purpose of existence is as playthings for him. Some of the toys occasionally stray from their duties to satisfy their own personal desires, or because of hurt feelings from being abandoned by their gods, blah blah blah...

Or maybe it's one of those crazy people who think everyone in fiction with the initials "JC" is a Jesus expy.

No, Toy Story 3 is OBVIOUSLY another Socialist message movie. I mean, Lotso is obviously a capitalist pig-dog, and the eventual society set up at the end puts all toys, regardless of personal ability, at the mercy of their children overmasters.

@Insane Reviewer: The company is evil? Technology is evil and separates people? Really? That's what you thought the message was? The protagonist who brings the people together is a robot. A ROBOT. Oh, and the evil company? I'm SURE they were the ones who were piling up mountains of empty consumer goods.

Your analysis of the characters is hilarious. EVE never does anything but fly around and blow shit up? Yeah, we watched the movie, we know that's bull.

I honestly can't rate this review, because it is beyond rating. It's just strange and ridiculous.

I really dislike you now. "Big businesses and technology are destroying our lives and cutting us off from all human contact." You realize that your computer which you used to type this is technology, and you either got it from a big box store, or you got it from somebody else, who got it from a big box store. Face it, you're a hypocrite. also, it's not my favorite movie, but I still enjoyed it. Have fun looking like a total prick on the internet.

^Learn how to read the entire paragraph instead of throwing a hissy fit after the first sentence and maybe you won't look like a dumbass on the internet.

It's not Disney, it's Pixar. Disney's just the distributor. Pixar made the film.

"Andy's a god, and the toys' sole purpose of existence is as playthings for him. Some of the toys occasionally stray from their duties to satisfy their own personal desires, or because of hurt feelings from being abandoned by their gods, blah blah blah"

That's quite a ridiculous and unjustified. Not that it couldn't be accurate, but I see no reason to guess that it is.

"Or maybe it's one of those crazy people who think everyone in fiction with the initials 'JC' is a Jesus expy."

Who had those initials in "Toy Story"?

"then why is a company so ruthlessly monomaniacal as Disney telling us this with the medium of a computer-generated movie that is entirely reliant on spectacle and stars a personality-free Number Five clone?"

Because they want to make money?

And the thing is, that's would, in the end, be a religious subtext not a atheist subtext. Because Andy is viewed positively and the new-age delusional Buzz has to come to terms with his small place in life and understand that he is loved. Obstacles and things cause the toys to fall away from Andy but if they try hard they can find his place with him in the end and it turns out he's been looking for them all the time.

It would have a worrying message in Toy Story 3 though, where God grows up and gives his people to a smaller less experienced God who has the time to love them.